NCI renews grant for genomics and cancer research training program at Gillings School
September 2, 2016 The Department of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has been awarded a renewal of the “Biostatistics for Research in Genomics and Cancer”... Read more »
International study finds 20 genetic regions, across all ethnic ancestries, associated with kidney function
September 1, 2016 A large international collaboration marks the first study of kidney function involving individuals from four continents. After examining kidney function in African, Asian, European and Hispanic individuals,... Read more »
UNC’s Endeavors magazine highlights Gillings School researchers
August 18, 2016 Endeavors, the online magazine highlighting research and creative activity at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, featured six Gillings School of Global Public Health researchers... Read more »
Chen honored as new ASA fellow
August 18, 2016 Ding-Geng (Din) Chen, PhD, clinical professor of biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Wallace H. Kuralt Distinguished Professor in the School of... Read more »
Gillings Merit Scholars and Gillings Dissertation Awards announced
August 17, 2016 Sixteen students at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been selected as 2016-2017 recipients of Gillings Merit Scholarships or Gillings Dissertation Awards. The scholarship and... Read more »
Indian scholar awarded P.K. Sen Distinguished Visiting Professorship
August 17, 2016 Sebastian George, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics at St. Thomas College, Palai, in Kerala, India, has been named P.K. Sen Distinguished Visiting... Read more »
Gillings School’s summer undergraduate training program inspires new group of young scholars
July 29, 2016 As the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s summer undergraduate training program comes to a close this week, participants and mentors are celebrating another season during... Read more »
Biostatistics’ Tan wins award for best paper in Canadian statistics journal
July 18, 2016 Xianming Tan, PhD, research associate professor of biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received the Statistical Society of Canada’s Canadian Journal of... Read more »
Gillings alumna LaVange elected ASA president
June 28, 2016 Lisa LaVange, PhD, 1983 alumna and former professor of biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been elected the 113th president of the... Read more »
Kosorok to co-lead NIH ‘Big Data’ supplemental grant to train doctoral students in biomedical sciences
June 28, 2016 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have awarded a $97,956 supplemental “Big Data to Knowledge” (BD2K) grant to... Read more »
